Imagined cities: Urban experience and the language of the novel

Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-175

  Alter, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (25)

1. Ann Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences: Narrative Representation in the Language of Fiction (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982).
2. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Internalization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), pp. 47-48.
3. Margaret Cohen, The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
4. Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes, tr. Carol Cosman (New York: Carol and Graf, 1998), pp. 22-23.
5. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Paris as Revolution: Writing in the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
6. Gustave Flaubert, L'éducation sentimental (Paris: Flammarion, 1985), p. 357. All translations from this novel are mine, and all subsequent citations are to this edition.
7. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, tr. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1968), p. 177.
8. Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, tr. and ed. Kurt Wolf (New York: Free Press, 1950), p. 410.
9. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ed. Michael Cotsell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 221. All subsequent citations are to this edition.
10. Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (London: Penguin, 1970), p. 290.
11. Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ed. Stephen Gill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 11. All subsequent citations are to this edition.
12. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ed. Michael Cotsell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 267. All subsequent citations are to this edition.
13. In the discussion of this passage as well as of the next one, I have borrowed a number of sentences from my essay "Reading Style in Dickens," Philosophy and Literature 20, no. 1 (April 1996), pp. 130-137.
14. Michael Cotsell, The Companion to "Our Mutual Friend" (London: Allen and Unwin, 1986), p. 193.
15. A useful account of the idea of Petersburg in Russian culture can be found in Michael Holquist's "St. Petersburg: From Utopian City to Gnostic Universe," Virginia Quarterly Review, 48, no. 4 (Autumn 1972), pp. 539-557.
16. Andrei Bely, Petersburg, tr., annotated, and introduced by Robert A. Maguire and John E. Malmstead (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978). All subsequent citations are to this edition.
17. I am indebted to my colleague Eric Naiman for calling my attention to this idea.
18. Alfred Appel Jr., The Art of Celebration (New York: Knopf, 1992).
19. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), p. 71. All subsequent citations are to this edition.
20. James Joyce, Ulysses (New York: Random House, 1961). All subsequent citations are to this edition.
21. Clive Bell, "Plus de Jazz," reprinted in Since Cézanne (London: Chatto and Windus, 1922), pp. 217-230.
22. Virginia Woolf, The Essays of Virginia Woolf, vol. 4 (London: Hogarth, 1988), p. 434.
23. Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories, ed. by Nahum N. Glatzer (New York: Schocken, 1971), p. 434. All subsequent citations of Kafka's stories are to this edition.
24. Spilka, Dickens and Kafka: A Mutual Interpretation (Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1969).
25. Franz Kafka, The Trial, tr. with a preface by Breon Mitchell (New York: Schocken, 1998), p. 3. All subsequent citations are to this edition.